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Despatches from Frederick Walter Kitchener, governor of Bermuda, together with letters...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/246
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This record is about the Despatches from Frederick Walter Kitchener, governor of Bermuda, together with letters... dating from 1909 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 37/246
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1909
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Description (What the record is about)
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Despatches from Frederick Walter Kitchener, governor of Bermuda, together with letters received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals relating to Bermuda. Despatches are described at item level; other correspondence is not, and correspondents and subjects are as follows:
Offices:
- Admiralty (tenancy of the Natural History Society on Agar Island, marriage of Admiralty employees at the Bermuda Dockyard);
- Crown Agents (purchase of a dredger for St George's Channel, new issue of postage stamps);
- Privy Council Office (rules framed by the Central Midwives Board in pursuance of section 3 of the Midwives Act 1902);
- Foreign Office (head tax levied by the United States Government);
- Board of Trade (reports of the Cables Committee concerning the establishment of wireless telegraphy on Bermuda);
- Treasury (allowance to F L Godet);
- War Office (tenancy of the Natural History Society on Agar Island);
- House of Commons (the Hamilton Traffic Act);
- Borough Road Training College (application of A C Hodgson);
- Trinity House (lights on Gibb's Hill and St David's Island);
- Elder Dempster and Company (call of the Port Kingston at Bermuda);
- General Post Office (need for a direct mail service, wireless telegraphy in Bermuda);
- Zoological Society of London (lease of Agar's Island);
- Halifax and Bermudas Cable Company (cable rates);
- United Wireless Telegraph Company of the USA (application to erect a wireless telegraph station).
Individuals:
- A Jones (asks Colonial Office to support proposals for a steamer service call at Bermuda);
- M T Golinsky (requests patronage of the Queen for the Women's Agricultural Society of Bermuda);
- F W Kitchener (requests extension of leave);
- Reverend B Mackay (applies for a living in England);
- J Rippon (cable rates);
- C H Smith (complaint against J J Smith, Magistrate)
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2750085/
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CO 37
Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence
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